The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-07-21
THE ROUVIER MINISTRY.
IT HAS SURPRISED ITS FRIENDS AND
oIscoMFiTEp ITS ENEMIES.

The Cabinet Rapidly Gaining the Confl.
denOe Ofthe PeOplo--It Is Believed That
the Present Government Is Stronger
Than Its Pred deoessOr-Cable NOtoS-
LONDON, July 20-The Bouvier ministry
has surprised its friends and discomfted its
enemies. When it was formed it is safe to
say that not man in France, including the
ministers themselves and President Grevy,
believed that the cabinet would hold
together month, but has grown strong and
Is gaining in the confidence of the people
daily. Who would have been rash enough
to predict six weeks ago that the govern
ment would Danish Gen. Boulanger from
Paris to the most remote military post in
France, and do so, too, with the avowed
purpose Of preventing his presence at the
July fete.
The mere suggestion Of such action at
that time would have driven the cabinet
from their posts and out of Paris, who, six
weeks ago. when M. Clemenceau was
breathing vengeance against the govern
ment for the slight put upon the president
in risking prolonged crisis rather than call
upon him to form a ministry, and openly
declaring that he would seizs the first oppor-
tunity to overturn the government, would
have believed that the Radical leader would
stultify himself by speaking in support Of
the government and against his friend Bou-
LANCER within two months! Yet NJ Clemen-
ceau has done these very things and is COM
pelled to admit that the present government
is stronger than its predecessor. One Of its
chief causes of strength, If not the sole cause,
is its fearlessness
In the beginning, when it had everything
to gain and nothing to lose, its strength was
in its weakness. 1t entertained no hope Of
surviving the hostility that confronted it,
and was firm only in its purpose of asserting
itself while it lived. That policy OF self
assert was the foundation Of its influence
over first one and then another of the polit-
ical factions opposing it, and really the basis
of its successor. Having triumphed over
its minor enemies 1t boldly attacked and re-
moved its bette noir, Gen. Boulanger, and
now purdoses the complete subjugation Of
his adherents. This will not prove an easy
matter to accomplish, but NJ ROuvier and
his colleagues are filed with confidence and
likewise possessed Of All abundance OF de-
termination that the partisans Of Revanche
shall be suppressed even at the point Of the
bayonet
The precautionary measures adopted on
the. occasion of the review at Long Champs,
when the troops went through their evolu-
tions with loaded weapons, have not been
relaxed, but on the contrary have been
strengthened and extended and a repetition
of the Boulanger demonstrations, which
within the last fortnight have been fire.
quent, will be the signal for general at
tack upon the offenders of such a character
as to leave no doubt of the rashnesS Of
future movements Of similar character. The
government may fail IN this course Of ac-
tion, as no one ever knows the strength and
nature Of the sympathy French mob may
inspire but il it should be successful the
Rouvier government that everybody
laughed and Sneered at few weeks ago, its
enemies openly charging that it had been
appointed at Berlin, will become the strong
est government that France has had for
many years, and the Parisian mob will find
that it has no more chance of prevailing
against the constituted power than it had in
the days VI the empire.